Kimi K3's Rise Sparks a US-China AI Distillation Fight

Kimi K3, Moonshot AI's open-weight model, topped GPT-5.6 Sora and Claude Opus on benchmarks like Program Bench and Automation Bench. Anthropic accused Moonshot of distilling Claude's outputs, a claim repeated by White House science advisor Michael Kratsios, but experts say the timeline makes it implausible.

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